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May 12, 2011 · 10:17 pm

Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality Chapter 6 “Secular Sources Confirm the Name of Yahweh”

Chapter 6

Secular Sources Confirm the Name of Yahweh

Sometimes it helps us to hear it from another source, to have it confirmed from an expert. The following is a quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 23, 1970 edition, page 867:

“YAHWEH, the proper name of the God of Israel; it is composed of four consonants (YHWH) in Hebrew and is therefore called the tetragrammaton. The name was first revealed to Moses (Ex.3), but the god of Moses was the God of the fathers (Ex.3:6,15), known to the Israelites as El Shaddai (Ex. 6:2-3). In the bible, the name Yahweh is derived from the verbal root “to be,” “to exist,” and means “he who is” (Ex. 3:14 ff.). Other etymologies, suggested by modern scholars, lack cogency: no real parallels have been found in the Egyptian or Babylonian pantheon; a god Yaw in the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit is poorly attested; and the close links between the Israelites and the Kenites are unlikely to have included the adopting of the Kenite god.

“The origin of the name Yahweh must be sought within Israel itself, and may well be older than the time of Moses, for the Bible speaks of a much earlier institution of his worship (Gen. 4:26), and the first syllable of Jochebed, the name of Moses’ mother, seems to be derived from Yahweh. Possibly the tribe of Levi or the family of Moses already knew the name Yahweh, which may have been originally, in its short form Yah or Yahu, a religious invocation of no precise meaning called forth by the terrible splendour of the holy made manifest. If this is so, Moses did not receive from God a revelation of a new name; instead, a name already familiar was given, in his prophetic experience, a new meaning which thereafter prevailed. But there is no need to reject the derivation of Yahweh from the verb “to be,” for it is supported by occurrences in Babylonian tests of the verbal root ewu (emu) meaning “to be” or “to exist” which also, in the imperfect tense, forms part of proper names such as Yawi-ilu, “the god (ilu) exists (yawu).” The pronunciation of the Hebrew name of God may have varied in antiquity; the accuracy of the form Yahweh is supported by both the etymology in Ex. 3 and the transliteration used by Church Fathers such as Clement of Alexandria.

“When Moses asked God his name, the answer he received, “I AM WHO I AM” (Ex. 3:14), must be understood as a revelation of profound meaning, not as a refusal by God to disclose his true identity. The revelation does not dissolve the mystery that surrounds God, but the passage in Exodus shows that the revelation alone enabled Moses to accomplish his mission. The emphasis lies not simply on God’s existence but on his close and dynamic presence with Moses and his people (Ex. 3:12). This presence and power of God is stressed in the frequent biblical phrase “Yahweh Sabaoth,” “Yahweh of hosts,” those hosts both earthly and heavenly which God uses to establish his sovereignty over Israel, and through Israel over the whole world. The name Yahweh was thus for the faithful Israelite a never-failing source of confidence, power and joy. The ideas of God’s eternity and changelessness, not found in the Exodus passage, are present in later texts (e.g., Isa. 40:28; 41:4; 43:13; 44:6) and became predominant in the Greek versions and in most modern versions.”

Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, 1972 edition, page 1645 has this to say: Yahweh, [Heb.: see JEHOVAH] God: a form of the Hebrew name in the Old Testament: see TETRAGRAMMATON. Jehovah, [modern transliteration of the Tetragrammaton YHWH; the vowels appear through arbitrary transference of the vowel points of adonai, my Lord], (page 756).

So we see that “Yahweh” is a very close rendition of YHWH, much closer than “Jehovah”, which is a modern appellation of the divine name.

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May 6, 2011 · 4:16 pm

YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY CHAPTER 5 “The Importance of His True Name YHWH”

Every year here in southwest Missouri in November, an onslaught of hunters converge into the tens of thousands of acres of hardwood forests in hopes of bagging a prize buck. Imagine yourself in the middle of a 2000 acre tract alone in a deer stand. You hear the sounds of other hunting parties, for many have the same thing in mind as you do. You hear the word, “Daddy,” faintly off in the distance, and then it fades into the whisper of the wind in the leaves. You don’t pay it much mind.

I dare say that if you had heard your name coming through those trees, be it ever so faint, it would have gotten your attention. It would have generated thoughts immediately! Who could that be? Is that one of my kids? What are they doing out here? Are they hurt? Do they need me? And chances are that it would have sparked a search for that voice until you had found that person who had called your name.

Are names important? In this scenario a certain name is. The use of our name gets our attention. It could have been anybody’s daddy from anywhere, but when our name is uttered, we perk up.

I can’t help but think of our Father in heaven. We have been made in His likeness, in His image, both physically and emotionally. If our attention is corralled, galvanizing us into a desperate action by the mere mention of our name, could it be that His attention could be gotten in the same manner? Could it be that if only we could call upon the Creator and our Father using His real name, His given name, the name He said was His name forever—would that perk up His ears to our prayers, to our requests, to our cries?

The scriptures say that if we humans know how to give good gifts unto our own children, how much more will the Father give to those who ask Him. If we could respond to a faint cry of our own name in a deep forest, is it a big stretch to believe that the Almighty God, who is Love, could not be moved in His heart by hearing His own name expressed by one of His little ones?

The substitution of titles for YHWH

Now we know His real name. YHWH, pronounced “Yahweh,” is not a new revelation unto man. The name of the God of the Hebrews has been known for many centuries, but the translators have deliberately substituted the titles “LORD” and on occasion “GOD” and “JEHOVAH” for “Yahweh.” This is despite the passage quoted above, “Yahweh is my name forever.”

But Yahweh already knew that men would try to change His name throughout the ages. That’s why He said that it was His name forever and how we will remember Him. His name is His memorial unto all people in all times. You know His real Hebrew name, and you will begin to remember Him. His name Yahweh has been set up from the ancient times as a way for His people to bring Him back into their memories. The Hebrew word for “name” is shem, #8034, meaning “reputation; memory; renoun.” It was sometimes used as a synonym for “memory” (“Name,” Vine’s Expository Dictionary).

Believing in His Name

Just how important is the name of the Supreme Being? “But as many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons (children) of God, even to them that believe on His name,” (John 1:12). Two major points are to be considered from this passage. First, when we receive Him, we are given authority and power to become the Spirit-Creator’s children. A comma sets off the second part of the verse. It is set up like an appositive, which renames what just went before in the verse. The second part of the verse says, “even to them that believe on his name.”

In other words, those who receive Him are those to whom He gives power and authority to become His offspring. And these are equal to those who believe in His name. His name is very important then. Those believing in it are equated with those who have received Him, who have received His Spirit (“I will come to you,” He says in John, speaking of the Comforter, the Spirit). Those believing in His name are those who are to become His children. The Creator came in human form; the Word was made flesh. “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” He came unto His own people and they did not receive Him. But some will.

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April 23, 2011 · 1:26 pm

YAHWEH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY CHAPTER 4 “And They Shall Say to Me, What is His Name?”

STEP TWO–KNOWLEDGE OF HIS NAME [“The name of Yahweh is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it and is safe.” Proverbs 18: 10]

Chapter 4 And They Shall Say to Me, What Is His Name?

The quest for immortality is really a search for the knowledge of who the Immortal One, the Creator, is. And there can be no knowledge of who He is without knowing His true name.

Take Moses, for example. The first thing that he was concerned about when called out by God to do a work was knowing God’s name.

Moses had already fled Egypt and was shepherding a flock on Mt. Horeb in the Sinai. It is here that God appears to him out of a burning bush. Moses goes over to get a better look at the marvelous sight. Then God calls Moses by name out of the burning bush.

Moses is dumbfounded, of course. God then tells him just who is speaking. “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And then He tells Moses that He has heard the cries of His people in Egypt, and that He has come down to deliver them out of bondage. “Come now therefore, and I will send you unto Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.”

And Moses said in essence, “Why me? Who am I to do such a difficult task?”

And God said, “Certainly I will be with you.”

And Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” This is the foremost thing, the very first thing that Moses knows the children of Israel will ask him when he goes down to deliver them. Moses knows that if he does not know God’s name, the people will not buy it. They will know that something is wrong with this deliverer. If you know God, Moses, you will surely know His name. If you and God know each other so well that He would be sending you with power to overthrow Pharoah, then surely you are going to know His name (Ex. 3: 10-13).

God then says to Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘The LORD*…has sent me to you’: this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” [*Footnote in the RSV, Exodus 3:15: “The word LORD when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, to be.”]

With this information, we may now restore the divine name into that same passage: “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘YHWH has sent me to you: this is my name for ever.” Stop. God says that YHWH is his name forever. “And thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” With this God is saying that He is to be remembered by using the name of YHWH! The word “LORD” appears more than 6,800 times in the Hebrew canon, commonly known as the Old Testament. That means that the Creator’s name YHWH appears about 6,800 times! The prophets addressed Him by His name YHWH. They remembered Him by using His name. The name YHWH was a memorial, the way to remember Him.

Did Moses obey God and tell the children of Israel that “YHWH has sent me to you”? The answer is yes. And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD (YHWH) God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. Ex. 5:1. In fact, Moses penned down the name of YHWH 1,700 times in the first five books of the Scriptures. And the divine name of YHWH appears in most translations as the title, “the LORD.”

Wisdom–What Is It Exactly?

Chapter 2 Wisdom–What Is It Exactly?

Wisdom is the main thing, but what exactly is it? It seems so mystical, so ethereal, so other-worldly. It is just a little bit intimidating and mysterious when you try to figure out what wisdom is according to man’s conception of it. So you go to the scripture of truth and find the definition of it in Job 28:28: “…Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.” I read the words but I’m not much closer in comprehending just what that means. I consult a dictionary and find that “fear” means reverential awe and respect. “Awe” is defined as an emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired as by authority, genius, great beauty, or might. So then, the scripture of truth says that the main thing, the principal thing is to be awestruck, to have this awe and profound respect of our Maker.

When we realize just who He is and how powerful and wonderful He is, then more awe will come over us. Solomon, who had it all as far as worldly riches was concerned, summed it all up in Ecclesiastes 12:13: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.” Be in awe and respect Him and keep his ten commandment law, and you will be doing your duty.

Awe and respect of God—that is wisdom, and that is the key to open the door to God’s heart. But what are we humans in awe of? “Oh, she’s awesome! Oh, he’s awesome!” is heard when a movie star comes on TV plugging their next movie. Hollywood is awesome? Sports stars and music stars of pop and rock are awesome? We humans have sold out to very poor gods who cannot deliver. These movie and music idols offer nothing to their worshippers. But they are modern mankind’s idols. Isn’t it amazing that modern man idolizes personalities who make millions by being something other than what they really are? Our movie idols are phony; they are not real.

Your god is

who you are in awe of

Your god is who you are in awe of. Man has it built into his makeup to be in awe of something. It is man’s nature to think that something or someone is awesome. Sometimes it is a star; sometimes it is himself. But man is in awe of something or someone.

To be in awe, then, is the first step in worship. So, it turns out that man is in awe of almost everything except God. Humans will go onto a mountaintop and exclaim how awe-inspiring the view is and how the waterfall in the distance is awesome. Man is in awe of things of the earth and this world. Therefore, man just doesn’t have any true wisdom from above because to be awestruck of Him is wisdom.

How does one get wisdom? “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering…” James l: 5-7. Faith is assurance that He will do what he said He will do without you having to see or feel it beforehand. Faith believes and is assured before you receive whatever you ask for. When you waver, you are not totally sure that He will do what He said He would do.

So, we then ask Him for that emotion of being in awe of Him, instead of some worldly figure or thing–and we ask with assurance.

This may sound like a dumb question, but one may wonder just what is He and what has He done to warrant such awe. Go outside on a clear night and count the billions of stars. With the new Hubbel space telescope, the astronomers have reported recently that there are 12 billion galaxies like ours! That’s galaxies like our Milky Way which have hundreds of millions of stars—one of which, of course, is our sun. Now I know why the Great Creator was perplexed by the ancients’ worship of the sun. The sun is small fry—very small potatoes.

We’ve got to get back to the Supreme Power that created all of this flabbergasting universe. And when we begin to get a tiny glimpse of the majesty of this kind of power that created all things, then that’s the beginning of wisdom.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock [Ch. 2 of Yah Is Savior–The Road to Immortality]

The Oneness of God–Christ Said, “The Father Is in Me”

Believing in the meaning of His name is of utmost importance. To ever fulfill our God-given calling of becoming His sons and daughters with His power flowing through us, we must believe on His name.

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). And in John 3:18 we discover that “believing on Him” is “believing in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” And conversely, he that “believes not is condemned already” for only one reason: “because he hath not believed in the name.”

Not believing in the meaning of His name carries a catastrophic result. The condemnation is “that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). Because that same apostle wrote, “God is light,” in I John 1:5, we might read the above passage, “God is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than God, because their deeds were evil.” He did say that He was “the true Light” in John 1:9.

The Savior’s name, Yahshua, which means in Hebrew, “Yahweh is the Savior,” has within it God’s truth as to what His very nature is. That nature is that He is One. One Spirit, one expressed image called the Son, One, One, One. The invisible Father is in the Son, which is God (Spirit) in human form.

Let us get this teaching from the Master’s own lips. In John 14:10, it is like the Savior is speaking to us today. Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The Father that dwells in Me speaks the words through me and does the works. The Father is omnipresent. He is everywhere. The Son is a vessel, then, that is in the Father, in the Spirit. We, then, since God is everywhere, we are in the Father, too. And the Father, in turn, is also in the vessel as that same one invisible Spirit.

In verse 11, He commands us. “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” This is a commandment. In fact, this is one of his new commandments that John tells us about. He is saying, The things I do only God can do, so believe what I am saying to you about the Father being now present right now with you (in me). These miracles done through me—it is the Father in me that is doing them.

Believing on Him as the Scripture has just said

In verse 12 He says that those who “believe on Him” will do the same works that He does. Now, most assume that this means “accepting Him as their personal Savior.” But it does not mean this. It means, “to believe on Him” in the same manner that He just expounded on in the previous two verses. I repeat—those that “believe on Him” will believe on Him as He has just expounded—believing that the Father, the great wonderful invisible Spirit-Creator is in the Son. There is only one way the Father could be in a human vessel, and that is by the Father being an invisible Spirit.

Let us not forget already what He taught about belief in them. First, He said that “ if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” Second, He said, “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” This was His teaching on “believing on me.” That is what He meant when He commanded, “Believe on me.” It was that we believe that He was in the Father and the Father in Him, as opposed to the idea of the Father in some other vessel. For the Son is the “expressed image of the invisible God.”

He emphasized this truth by prefacing it with, “Verily, verily.” This means, “In truth,” and He said it twice to make sure we got it. And that truth about believing on Him means believing that He was in the Father and the Father was in Him. And if we get this right, there is a ton of promises He makes to us. One of them is that we will do the same works that He did. And “if we believe on him as the scripture has said,” the Spirit will flow out from our depths. KWH

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March 26, 2011 · 4:27 pm

“Yahshua”–Believing in the Meaning of His Name

The disciples are looking up into the serene face of the risen Savior. They have been with him for forty days now—witnessing the glory in His every word and movement. He has taught them precious things “pertaining to the kingdom of God.” He has also instructed them to stay in Jerusalem and “wait for the promise of the Father.” He has told them to wait for a spiritual baptism in which they will be immersed in God’s very own Spirit. No water like John’s baptism—this time the power from on high will come upon them.

This promise to them must have been difficult to believe because instead of asking questions about it, they ask a question concerning the kingdom. Thinking He was talking about a political government, they ask, “Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”

He responds by saying that the times and seasons of the restoration of the kingdom to Israel rests in the Father’s power. Shortly, you will be given some of this power from the Father. That is the first step in the restoration process. You disciples must begin to receive some of the Father’s power so that you can be witnesses of Me, not only locally, but throughout the whole world. First receive the power of the Father, and then He will restore the government to Israel in due season.

This account in the first chapter of Acts begins the talk of the restoration of all things in the post-resurrection era. Peter picks up this thread in Acts 3: 21 when he tells the crowd on the day of Pentecost that “the heaven must receive” the Savior “until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” In other words, the Savior Yahshua will not be returning to set up the kingdom of God here on earth until all things are restored.

Restoring the Knowledge of His Name

And one major piece of the puzzle that God is restoring is the knowledge of His name. First, we must become aware of His original Hebrew name. But that is only the beginning. The secrets of God’s power are locked up inside the holy name of God—secrets to His power, secrets about receiving answers to our prayers, and secrets about how to have Him flow through us to heal, which, in turn, shows that the Father is alive and well and living in His sons and daughters.

Clues to the Power in His Name

Peter gives a clue to this healing power found in His name five verses before in Acts 3:16. Peter and John had, of course, just received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire on the day of Pentecost. They go to the temple; a lame man asks alms from them. Peter then delivers his famous line. “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Yahshua the Messiah of Nazareth rise up and walk.” And the man was healed!

And he starts to walk and leap around in the temple, praising God for healing him. And everybody standing around knew this crippled man, and “they were all filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him” (v. 8-11).

And Peter, looking around, realizes that the people think that they had healed him somehow. So he straightens them out and tells them that it was the Holy One who had healed him. In fact, he gets even more specific about just how the man was healed. “And his name through faith in His name has made this man strong.”

Wait a minute now. Let’s not just pass over this lightly. It was “His name through faith in His name” that infused that poor man’s legs with strength.

Now if a person nowadays could channel this power by just saying, “in Jesus name,” then everybody would be healing the sick everywhere And we know that is not happening. So there has to be more to it than just speaking a formula, such as “in Jesus’ name.”

And, yet, we have thousands of so called men of God running around the earth trying to invoke the name of God in order to heal someone. They will say earnestly, “But He said that if we ask anything in his name, that He would grant it.”

Now all of us at one time or another labored under this thought. We have understood this to mean that if we say the special words, “in Jesus’ name,” that somehow or other God would answer our prayer requests.

But upon further reflection, just saying those words, “in Jesus’ name” tacked onto the end of a prayer, does not guarantee anything. Our minds, of course, did not know what else those words could mean. After all, someone supposedly much more knowledgeable about God than us showed us how to say “in Jesus’ name” after our prayer request, and so we, without questioning it, began to say it. We were young and impressionable. We did not know any better. We were spiritual children, “tossed about by every wind of doctrine.”

And then a wonderful thing happened. We learned about the sacred names. It was a glorious revelation at the time. And so we began to replace the name of Jesus with God’s Hebrew names. And, so, we naturally ended our prayers, asking all “in the name of Yah, or Yahweh or Yahshua.”

But we still are saying the words, “in Yahshua’s name,” at the end of our prayers the same way we did with, “in Jesus’ name.” We have the name right now, but why aren’t we seeing the fruit of our prayers? Why are we powerless to heal in His name?

The key: Believing what His name means

It is time for us to get a deeper understanding of His promise, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do…” (John 14:13). YHWH earnestly desires to share this with us. He wants us to have the power to be His witnesses. So what is the key to understanding what this means: asking anything in His name and receiving it?

The key lies in believing what His name means. Three steps are on this road of understanding. First, we need to know His name. Second, we need to know what His name means. Third, we need to believe in the meaning of His name.

The Hebrew name of Immanuel, God with us, is Yahshua. There are many variations on the spelling. Spellings may be different by one or more letters. Different camps are adamant that their spelling is the correct one. I’m not trying to be glib here, but until He or one of His heavenly messengers speak His name to us, it is difficult to be sure. Paul of Tarsus, under the influence of the Spirit, said that the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. Getting to the spirit of His name is more important than the exact spelling, as rendered in a foreign language called English. Understanding its meaning is the important thing.

Yahshua means “Yah is Savior.” “Yah” translated means in essence, “The Self-Existent One.” So, “Yahshua” means “The Self-Existent One is Savior.” YHWH created everything, says many verses of scripture. It also says that Yahshua created all things. “He was in the world and the world was made by Him,” says the apostle John. “You shall call His name “Yah Is Savior,” for He shall save His people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21).

Believing in the meaning of His Hebrew Name

It is when we get to this third step that the going gets tough. Believing in the meaning of His name. That is the difficult part because one must throw away preconceptions about His name, and there are plenty. This is the crux of the matter, however. If it were not difficult to come to this part of the quest for God, then everyone would have the power.

This is what, literally, separates the sheep from the goats, the spirit of truth from the spirit of error. To believe the message contained in His name, we must believe its meaning. And it means that Yah, the eternal Spirit, the Father, dwells in a human vessel known as the Son of God, and that entity, called the Holy One of Israel, is the Creator and Savior of mankind.

There are not “two men and a dove” up in heaven somewhere. There are not two gods in two different forms sitting on two different thrones. The Father is invisible—period. If you want to see the Father, you will have to go to the “expressed image of the invisible God.” In other words, you will have to go to the Son, for He is that very image of God. And so are we humans, for that matter. We have been created by the Pattern Himself in His own image. You want to see what God would look like here on earth? Just look around at your brothers and sisters walking the globe. That is the reason that he said, “If you cannot love him who you can see, you cannot love Him who you don’t see.” To love the invisible Father we need to love His visible image. That would be Yah in human flesh—Immanuel, an invisible Spirit, dwelling in the Son, who is sitting upon the throne. For He is the First and the Last, and “Beside YHWH, there is no savior” (Isaiah 43:11). The prophet Isaiah saw into the throne room in heaven; he is a reliable witness to His majesty. We need to believe him. KWHancock

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March 18, 2011 · 1:41 am

The Parable of the Leaven Hidden by the Woman

Things in this world are not what they seem. Our perception, or lack thereof, causes us to see only what we have been told was there. So we only see what we expect to see. The rest of what really is available to see lays dormant to the eye. It waits for someone to perceive what was there all along.

Take reading the Bible, for instance. Every person who reads it, reads it through a matrix of past teachings and doctrines that they sat under, making it difficult to see it with fresh eyes. Every denomination has pet doctrines that serve as a prism for their followers to see through.

It is the “leaven that the woman took and hid in three measures of meal” (Mt 13:33). “Leaven” in scripture is hypocrisy. “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy” (Luke 12:1). The key word here is “to hide.” Leaven is hid during the kingdom of heaven years after the resurrection and ascension. It is hid in the food that the followers of the Savior are to eat for their spiritual sustenance. Leaven is hid through false teachings about God.

False Doctrines Multiply

And “a little leaven leavens the whole lump” (Gal 5:9). A little false doctrine multiplies like a bit of yeast in a lump of bread. It soon spreads throughout the whole lump of dough. That is what the false religious system, symbolized as the “woman,” has done. Their false teachings cloud the truth so that the truth cannot be seen. They hide the truth with smoke and mirrors and spread confusion and a false sense of security. The Savior in the next verse after His warning about the leaven of hypocrisy says, “For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.” False teachings about God hide the truth from the eyes of casual onlookers.

You mean things really are covered up where the average person can’t see them? Yes, according to the Messiah. We are doctrinally to partake of the “unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,” Paul says. That would then make leaven insincerity and falsehoods. Bread is a symbol for sustenance. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” So leavened bread, spiritually speaking, is not the true word of God, but another doctrine.

Many say, “Doctrine is not the important. Just loving Jesus and each other is the important thing.” This is some of the old leaven we are to purge out. The apostle John was strong on the importance of sound doctrine. “Whosoever transgresses and abides not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God. He that abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son.” Doctrine is translated from a Greek word that simply means “instruction.” We, then, are to abide, or to continue in the teachings and instruction of Christ, the Messiah. If we do not continue in them, then we “have not God,” according to the apostle John.

That is how important the doctrine of God is. But this takes us full circle to this dilemma: What is the teaching/instruction/doctrine of the Savior? If we have been eating of a tainted, leavened bread that seems to be truth, but is actually hiding the truth as seen above, then how will we be able to see the truth?

It is here that many will balk. They will think in their hearts that the old wine is better; the new wine we can’t trust because it is new. “I already know the truth. I’m set. Many will go on their way and not delve any deeper into this area.

But wait! Don’t throw this aside! I want to prove to you that there are things hidden right in your own Bibles that you have read a hundred times or more and never saw. How can I say this with conviction? Because I just experienced a profound revelation of truth in the Bible—a truth that was always there in black and white—literally there, but I had never seen it.

I was reading Paul’s writings in I Corinthians 10:4-9—what he said about the children of Israel in the wilderness. “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.” A footnote loomed out at me on the word “followed.” It said, “that went with them.” In other words, “They drank of that spiritual Rock that went with them…” The children of Israel drank in the words of Christ, for He went along with them on their journey in the wilderness.

This intrigued me, so I turned to Exodus 17 to read about this. We have all heard of the story of the miracle of Moses smiting the rock and water coming out to quench the thirst of the people. In that passage, the children of Israel chided Moses for bringing them out “to cause us to die of thirst.” Moses then cried to YHWH and YHWH responded by saying, “And Yahweh said unto Moses, Go on before the people and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel” (Ex 17:5-6). Okay. Moses smites the rock and water comes out of it. A great miracle, indeed, but we have all read this passage many times. What’s new?

Go back to where Yahweh is speaking, “Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb…” I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb! Yahweh stated here that he was about to stand on the very rock that Moses was to smite. Picture it! God Almighty, in His glorified human form, the one He spoke through in the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve, the one who appeared to the patriarchs and prophets—Yahweh said that He will stand on that rock that Moses would smite for water, and He would stand there in the sight of Moses and the elders of Israel. And Paul, getting the revelation of this wrote that the children of Israel saw and heard Christ; they drank for that spiritual Rock that went with them through the wilderness, and that Rock was Christ. The Anointed One was there in the wilderness. He is the arms, the legs, the body of the invisible God, Yahweh. Yahshua is the “expressed image of the invisible God.” When Yahweh said, “I will stand on the rock,” He would use His glorified form, Immanuel. Invisible Yahweh poured fully into His glorified form standing there on that rock that Moses struck! What a sight! What a glorious moment in the history of this world. The children of Israel had no excuse for acting the way they did, for He went with them and stood before them, His feet above where the water was gushing out!

I never saw that before. I have never heard this or read this before. This revelation was a complete utter gift that God gave to me for no merit of my own. I share this so that, yes, others may see the glorious appearing of the Savior in Moses’ day. But more importantly, I share this so that we all can see that there is more to all of this truth than what we first thought. It is the “unsearchable riches of Christ.” We all have not even scratched the surface. His works are so grand and glorious that John said that “if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written” (John 21:25).

Consequently, we must remain open to new revelation. We must open our minds and hearts and pray that God would lift the fog of old leaven teachings that conceal and hide the truth of what God is doing and will do in the earth shortly.

THERE IS MORE! The old teachings of the old denominations won’t get the job done in this day. God is doing something new in the earth. He is calling forth a group of men and women who will remain open to new revelations. He said, “Behold, I make all things new.” That’s a “new covenant…a new heart…new wine…new bottles…new testament…new cloth…new commandment…new doctrine…new creature…all things are become new…a new man…new creature…a new and living way…new heavens…a new earth…a new name…a new song…and a new Jerusalem.”

If there is nothing new in our spiritual life, then we are missing out on God’s work in the earth. And He will do all of this as He restores all things that He spoke through His prophets since the world began. What a God! KWH

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March 21, 2010 · 3:43 pm

Abraham, Father of MANY NATIONS–But Which Nations Are They?

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The Lost Tribes of Israel have to be in the earth today. They are only lost to those who do not have an ear to hear and an eye to see.

Scholars say that after being taken into captivity around 720 B.C., they were totally dispersed and never heard from again. They say that they melted into all of the other peoples of the earth and that they no longer exists as the direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (whose name was changed by God to Israel).

That simply cannot be true, for many prophecies in scripture say that these descendants of Abraham would become nations. And not just any old run of the mill nations either. For Abraham was told by God, face to face, “Thou shalt be a father of many nations” (1).

But Abraham had just one little problem; his wife was barren and he had no heir to fulfill this prophecy. And he was running out of time, for he was about 100 years old, and his wife Sarai was 90 and well into menopause. It was difficult to believe, but “he believed the LORD (Yahweh); and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness (2)

From then on, God looked on Abraham as His righteous son. Here is the first seed lesson of what God’s faith can do–just believe God–the thing hardest for man to do. And in that same passage God gave him and his offspring all the land from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates.

Now, he just had to get this family started. Still no first born son…until that day when God yet appeared to Abram again. This time God made a covenant with Abram. In fact God changed his name to Abraham, “for a father of many nations have I made thee.” Many nations. And I will be your God and “establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant,” or agreement (3).

And it was then that God blessed Sarai and changed her name to Sarah, meaning “princess,” and told her that He would give her a son “of her,” and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.”

And their miracle son that God promised them came a year later as spoken. And they named him Isaac. And this great promise of nations and kings was renewed by God to Isaac. And then Isaac blessed his son Jacob with these words: “And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land…which God gave unto Abraham” (4).

Later God appeared to Jacob to renew His covenant of nations with him. “And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins”.

Who are these “many nations”? “Declare if thou hast understanding.” In the seed book of Genesis, prophecies spoken by God to Abraham declare that he will be the father of many nations. Can we discover who these nations are? Did not Christ say, “Seek and ye shall find”? Can we read the other prophecies about these nations that developed out of the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel and come to the knowledge of just who these nations are in history?

Scripture cannot be broken, for God cannot lie. He spoke of many nations out of Abraham. This could not be the Jewish Israeli state, for it is only one nation, and the Jews have not been a nation since 70 A. D. But it was “nations.” Christ spoke of the “Lost sheep of the House of Israel.” They are so important that He said He was only sent to them (6). We must find out, for they are the key that unlocks the prophetic utterances for these last days. KWH…to be continued

1. Genesis 17: 4

2. Gen. 15: 6

3. Gen. 17: 7

4. Gen 28:3-4

5. Gen 35: 11].

6. Matt. 16: 24

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February 20, 2010 · 7:46 pm

Yahweh’s Last Day Jewels–His Special Treasure

In these last days, God has a special treasure hidden in the earth. It is not composed of diamonds, rubies, silver, or gold. His special treasure are His jewels, but they are a special group of people who He is most keenly aware of in their walk on this earth. Yahweh takes special notice of them. And so, we must ask, Just who are these people? What characteristics distinguish them from other human beings?

First, they fear Him. They are in awe of Him, His power, and His plan. They know who He really is and what He has done. They are stupefied when they consider the astonishing array of His heavens and His earth.

Secondly, they will speak often to each other. They will eventually find each other, and when they do, they will “click.” They will have His Spirit in common and a mutual purpose in their walk on earth–one that will match God’s eternal purpose of sonship.

And then God will hearken to their speech, and He will remember them. To be one that He remembers! What an honor! When they are in awe of Him, He not only takes notice, but He has His angels make a “book of remembrance.” He has His angels write down our names in a book of remembrance! And He does this for those that speak often about Him, fear Him, and think upon His name.

What were they speaking one to another about? We know that whatever we think about, we speak about. These special chosen people of God were speaking to each other about His name. Then they that feared the LORD (Yahweh) spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name (Malachi 3: 16). Thy thought and spoke about His name Yahweh.

Through Isaiah God spoke, “I am the LORD: that is my name” (42: 8). And we know that “the LORD” is the title that the translators used in place of the Hebrew name “YHWH,” pronounced “Yahweh.” So, rewritten, the Spirit says through Isaiah, “I am Yahweh: that is my name.”

All this moves God. How can we, little old us, ever touch God’s heart that He would ever take notice of us? By being in awe of Him, thinking upon His name, and speaking about Him using His name. We need to think on His name–ponder it, peruse it, explore it, meditate on it, and understand the message contained in His name Yahshua: Yahweh is the Savior.

And what is the outcome for those who do this? God will remember them, saying, “They shall be mine…in that day when I make up my jewels [Hebrew–special treasure]; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him” (v. 17). Spare them from what? He will spare them from the time of punishment that is coming upon this earth.

For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up…But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. (Mal 4: 1-2). His name is important. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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January 10, 2010 · 12:18 pm

Praise God by His Name YAH

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The translators of the King James Bible substituted the title “the LORD” (in capital letters) for the Hebrew name of God–YHWH, pronounced Yahweh by most scholars. Over 6,700 times did they do this–except for one instance.

The verse is found in Psalm 68: 4. “Sing unto God, sing praises to His name: extol Him who rides upon the heavens by his name YAH, and rejoice before him.”

The prophet King David of Israel, inspired by the Holy Spirit, tells us in this verse to “sing praises to His name.” And then he tells us how to do this properly. He gives us the exact name of God right after the commandment. We are to extol and praise Him “by His name YAH.”

We are to address God and use His true Hebrew name YAH or YAHWEH in our praise of Him. In fact, the Spirit of God Himself speaking through David gives us a command. “Sing praises to His name…extol Him by His name YAH.” It could not be plainer in English.

But very few people know about this. And many who hear this for the first time immediately have doubts. They will say, “The LORD just wants us to praise Him. He doesn’t mind us saying ‘the LORD.'” And yet this scripture is perfectly clear.”

Why won’t people receive this? Christ asked the question this way. “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?” We are commanded to “praise Him by His name YAH.” He went on to say, “You have made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.” And, “In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matthew 15: 3-9).

We all learned to say, “Praise the LORD” instead of “Praise YAH” because of traditions handed down to us. And the sad irony here is that we all have literally praised YAH in Hebrew when we said, “HalleluYah.” This Hebrew word means–you guessed it–Praise YAH!

It takes a real hunger and thirst for God to be able to be open hearted enough to say, “I was in error. This is true and I am receiving it and walking in it no matter what the world may think or say.” KWH

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